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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 50
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Babylon shall be destroyed and never rise again—Scattered Israel shall be brought again into the lands of her inheritance.
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The</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 60.">word</a> that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake against Babylon <i>and</i> against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
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Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, <i>and</i> conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 46: 1.">Bel</a> is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
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For out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 48.">north</a> there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 13: 20.">dwell</a> therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
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&#182; In those days, and in that time, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the children of Israel shall <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">come</a>, they and the children of Judah <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 37: 22.">together</a>, going and <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/50/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 31: 9; Zech. 12: 10.">weeping</a>: they shall go, and seek the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God.
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, <i>saying,</i> Come, and let us join ourselves to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR everlasting.">perpetual</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Covenants.">covenant</a> <i>that</i> shall not be forgotten.
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My people hath been lost sheep: their <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 12 (9-16).">shepherds</a> have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away <i>on</i> the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
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All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB are not guilty.">offend</a> not, because they have sinned against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the habitation of justice, even the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the hope of their fathers.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Separation.">Remove</a> out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Chaldeans</a>, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
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&#182; For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 26.">north</a> country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 24: 8.">arrows</a> <i>shall be</i> as of a mighty expert man; none shall return <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/50/9c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB empty.">in</a> vain.
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And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR last.">hindermost</a> of the nations <i>shall be</i> a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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Because of the wrath of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Shout against her round about: she hath <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE submitted.">given</a> her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it <i>is</i> the vengeance of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 13: 14.">people</a>, and they shall flee every one to his own <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Lands of Inheritance.">land</a>.
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&#182; Israel <i>is</i> a scattered sheep; the lions have driven <i>him</i> away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 24: 8.">broken</a> his bones.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">bring</a> Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
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In those days, and in that time, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and <i>there shall be</i> none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Forgiveness.">pardon</a> them whom I reserve.
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&#182; Go up against the land of Merathaim, <i>even</i> against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
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A sound of battle <i>is</i> in the land, and of great destruction.
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this <i>is</i> the work of the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
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Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
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Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them!  for their day is come, the time of their <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/27a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR punishment.">visitation</a>.
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The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, the vengeance of his temple.
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Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, against the Holy One of Israel.
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Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Behold, I <i>am</i> against thee, <i>O</i> <i>thou</i> most proud, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts: for thy day is come, the time <i>that</i> I will visit thee.
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And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah <i>were</i> oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
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Their Redeemer <i>is</i> strong; the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts <i>is</i> his name: he shall throughly <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 51: 22.">plead</a> their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
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&#182; A sword <i>is</i> upon the Chaldeans, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise <i>men.</i>
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A sword <i>is</i> upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword <i>is</i> upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
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A sword <i>is</i> upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 20.">mingled</a> people that <i>are</i> in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword <i>is</i> upon her <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/37b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 3; Jer. 51: 13.">treasures</a>; and they shall be robbed.
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A <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/38a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Drought.">drought</a> <i>is</i> upon her waters; and they shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/38b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 27; Jer. 51: 36.">dried</a> up: for it <i>is</i> the land of graven images, and they are mad upon <i>their</i> idols.
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Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell <i>there,</i> and the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/39a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB daughters of the ostrich.">owls</a> shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
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As God overthrew <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/40a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 24; Isa. 13: 19.">Sodom</a> and Gomorrah and the neighbour <i>cities</i> thereof, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; <i>so</i> shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
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Behold, a people shall come from the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/41a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 6: 22 (22-24).">north</a>, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/50/41b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB remote parts.">coasts</a> of the earth.
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They shall hold the bow and the lance: they <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/42a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruel</a>, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, <i>every one</i> put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
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The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, <i>and</i> pangs as of a woman in travail.
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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who <i>is</i> a chosen <i>man,</i> <i>that</i> I may appoint over her?  for who <i>is</i> like me?  and who will appoint me the time?  and who <i>is</i> that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/44a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 28.">shepherd</a> that will stand before me?
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Therefore hear ye the counsel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make <i>their</i> habitation desolate with them.
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/50/46a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 49: 29.">moved</a>, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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